Traffic Report for January 1997

Hi, everyone! This is Jim, comin' at ya with this week's traffic report.
Every week, I send this report to the contributors, and once a month, I
send it to the entire HUMOR List. February 1997 is upon us.
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First and foremost, I'd like to welcome the newest HUMOR listowner.
Veterans of the list will recall that this man helped keep the list afloat
while Bill Edwards, our founder and primary owner, was on sabbatical a few
years ago in India. Jay Harman will be taking over the responsibilities of
Paul Robinson as HUMOR's error handler. Paul seems to be missing in
action. If anyone has seen or heard from him, tell him he's late for
dinner.
Secondly, I'd like to pose a question to the entirety of the list. A
while back, someone asked me about how to get something from HUMOR's
archives (which are readily available if you send LISTSERV@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
the command INDEX HUMOR) that pre-dates the oldest date given. (That's
usually about six months ago...) Good question. (Evasive answer.) In
wanting to give this person the best possible answer, it took me an
unusually long amount of time -- and I still haven't gotten a complete one.
At least now I can say that the listserver automatically purges the
archives after about six months or so. (Give or take a few days of
course...) Well, that answers the 'why' but not the actual question. If
there is anyone out there reading these words who keeps an archive of HUMOR
that goes back more than six months or so, please email me privately.
And if you are reading these words now, but don't read them weekly, you
are encouraged to become a contributor. Who knows? You may be next to
become a listowner, just like Jay, Larry Randall (our rules enforcer) and
me. This is your proverbial first step. Send LISTSERV@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU the
command GET HUMOR GUIDE, and you'll learn all about the list and the rules
that goven it (including the 99-line limit rule that I am using ownership
privilege to break right now...), and be given a small test to become a
contributor. You can also see the HUMOR guide at
http://www.webcom.com/jimphynn/humor/guide.html.
If, for any reason you need to get off the list, send
LISTSERV@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU the command SIGNOFF HUMOR. Like all commands, it
goes in the text of your message. You may send multiple commands, provided
you have no more (and no less) than one command per line of text.
Punctuation is not necessary.
If you have any further questions, feel free to send me an email at
jimphynn@mindspring.com, visit my home page at
http://www.webcom.com/jimphynn, or visit HUMOR's website at
http://www.webcom.com/jimphynn/humor/humor.html. Have a great week/month,
everyone, and I'll see you all next week/month.
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Traffic Report for HUMOR, 26 January - 1 February
(Number of articles posted each day)
4 Weeks 3 Weeks 2 Weeks 1 Week Last
Date Day Back Back Back Back Week
26 Sunday 7 18 8 18 19
27 Monday 9 13 10 22 14
28 Tuesday 8 17 16 20 18
29 Wednesday 7 19 23 19 18
30 Thursday 10 14 25 14 17
31 Friday 11 18 16 10 14
1 Saturday 11 9 15 13 15
Averages 9.0 15.4 16.1 16.6 16.4
Subscriptions 9,594 9,752 9,692 9,717 9,812
Countries 89 89 89 92 92
Contributors 848 860 804 810 810
These are based on addresses registered to our listserver. It does
not include addresses which receive HUMOR via local bulletin board,
area distribution lists, etc. These numbers include both concealed
and non-concealed subscribers.
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HUMOR is dispatched daily to the following countries:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Brunei
Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica,
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador,
Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece,
Guam, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea,
Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta,
Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Northern Ireland, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa,
Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan,
Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, USA,
Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Total countries: 92
Email me if your country is not listed here.
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And now for my usual contribution of humor:
Subject: A near-fatal attraction
Exerpted from the book _News From the Fringe,_ (c) 1993 by John J Kohut and
Roland Sweet
Hormone Pills, taken by a woman to rid herself of excess facial hair, also
made her pet rottweiler sexually obsessed with her. Writing in the British
medical journal _The Lancet_, Leeds dermatologist John Cotterill said that
the pills may have subtly changed the woman's body oder, so that the dog
"would not leave her alone." The woman solved her problem by having the
dog castrated.
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Jim Goldman, HUMOR list Traffic Reporter and Webmaster
jimphynn@mindspring.com http://www.webcom.com/jimphynn
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